On October 27, 2009, it became known that the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Komi had completed the investigation of a criminal case against a 23-year-old resident of the city of Ukhta, Valentin Shinkevich, accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred) and Art. . 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism). The case with the indictment approved by the prosecutor was sent to the Ukhta city court.

In June 2006, using an aerosol can of paint, the defendant wrote on the walls and entrance doors of the premises where the offices of the building of a public organization and the local branch of one of the political parties were located, "inscriptions of an extremist nature", "aimed at inciting hatred towards citizens of non-Russian nationality, and also to persons who are members of a political party . (Note that we know of only one episode of an attack on the office of "ideological" opponents in Ukhta in 2006 - an attack by neo-Nazis in January 2006 on the office of the city committee of the Communist Party ).

Sources

Investigation of a criminal case on the fact of committing acts of an extremist nature has been completed in the Komi Republic // Official site of the SU UPC RF. 2009. October 27.
The Investigative Department pays special attention to countering extremism in all its manifestations. // Investigative Committee of the SU under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the Komi Republic. 2009. October 29.

In Komi, the case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation was transferred to court